Lecturers Page Dr. Tamar Razi

Dr. Tamar Razi

ד"ר תמי רזי היא מרצה בכירה במחלקה לתקשורת ובמחלקה ללימודים רב תחומיים ועומדת בראש התוכנית לתואר שני בתקשורת, עם התמחות בניהול קהילות דיגיטליות. תחומי המחקר שלה הם היסטוריה חברתית של תקופת היישוב וכן חקר אי השוויון במערכת ההשכלה הגבוהה בישראל

Dr. Tammy Razi is a senior lecturer in the department of Communications and the department of Multidisciplinary Studies. She is also head of the MA program in Communications and Digital Communities. Her areas of research are social history of pre-state Israel and also the study of inequality in Higher Education in Israel. 

Areas of interest and Teaching

Research

Social history of pre-state Israel, Inequality in Higher Education in Israel

Awards

 2007 The Ephraim Urbach Fellowship, Jewish Memorial Foundation (10,000$)

2007 The Keren Kayemet Award for best Dissertations on Jewish History and Settlement

2009  The “Centennial Year Foundation” award for best books on Tel-Aviv

2012  The Center for the Studies of Relations between Jews, Christians and Moslems, Open University, Israel

 Jewish-Arab Relations during the British Mandate  (Moshe Naor and Abigail  Jacobson Co-PI)

2013     International Research Fund Israeli Institute, Washington DC Jewish-Arab Relations during the British Mandate  (Moshe Naor and Abigail  Jacobson Co-PI)

2018-2019   Tikva Israelit The Rothschild Foundation and the San Francisco Federation Thinking from the South   (Moti Gigi and Sigal Nagar-Ron Co-PI)

2019-2020  Gvanim, The Rothschild Foundation and the San Francisco Federation

Diversity in Academia (Moti Gigi and Sigal Nagar-Ron Co-PI)

2022- 2024  The Forum for Gender, Law and Policy, Haifa University and Sapir Academic College research committee  Gender Equity and diversity in Academia: intersectional analysis of academic staff in Israel via process mining  (Sigal Nagar-Ron and Sagit Kedem-Yemini Co-PI)



Publications

Razi, T. (2009). Forsaken Children: The Backyard of Mandate Tel-Aviv. Am-Oved Publishing House, 410 pp [Hebrew]


1.     Gigi, M., Nagar-Ron, S. & Razi, T., (Editors). (2022). Diversifying the Ivory Tower: First Generation Students Writing. Haifa: Pardes [Hebrew, 301 pp.]

https://www.pardes.co.il/?id=showbook&catnum=978-965-541-082-2

2.     Razi, T., & Tzoreff, M. (Guest Editors). (2018). Special Issue: Women and Gender in Middle Eastern Spheres, New East [Hebrew, 228 pp.]

3.     (a). Razi, T., & Sheffi, N. (Guest Editors). (2009). Special Issue: The Six Day War - Media and Culture, Journal of Israeli History, 28(2) [242 pp].

     (b). Razi, T., & Sheffi, N. (Guest Editors). (2008). Special Issue: The Impact of

     the 1967 War on Israeli Culture and Media. Israel, 13 [Hebrew, 313 pp.]

 

 

 D.   Articles in Refereed Journals

Published

1.     1. Razi, T. (2019). Jugendliche Straftater, Aufbau der Nation und Kolonialismus wahrend der britischen Mandatszeit in Palastina, Sex and Crime Geschichten aus der judischen Underwelt. Uudischer Almanach der Leo Baeck Institute, pp. 49-59 [German]

2.     Razi, T. (2012). Arabs-Jews: Gender, Ethnicity and Nationalism under the British Mandate. Theory and Criticism, 38-39, pp. 137-169 [Hebrew]

3.     Razi, T. (2012). Immigration and its Discontents: Treating Children in the Psycho-Hygiene Clinic in Mandate Tel Aviv. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 11 (3), pp. 339-356.

4.     Razi, T. (2011). “My Daughter is like Fire”: Mothers and Neglected Daughters in Tel Aviv during the 1930s and 1940s. Iyunim Bitkumat Israel: Gender In Israel, pp. 140-169 [Hebrew].

5.     Razi, T. (2010). “Children Deprived of Childhood”: Removal of Children from their Homes in Pre-state Israel. Society and Welfare, 30 (3-4), pp. 377-396 [Hebrew].

6.     Razi, T. (2010). “The Family Is Worthy of Being Rebuilt”: Perceptions of the Jewish Family in Mandate Palestine, 1918-1948. Journal of Family History, 35, pp. 395-415.

7.     Razi, T.  (2009). On the City Margins: Youths in Mandate Tel-Aviv. Zmanim, 106, pp. 64-75 [Hebrew].

8.     Razi, T. (2002). Alice outside the Enchanted Garden: The Body of Victorian Girlhood, Zmanim, 78, pp. 49-61 [Hebrew].


Accepted:


     Razi, T. Nagar-Ron, S. & Kedem-Yamini, S. An intersectional and Processual Analysis of Inequality in Israeli Academia via process mining. Studies on Regulation 9 (Accepted)

 

E.  Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books

 

Published

1.     Razi, T (2011). Subversive Youth Cultures in Tel-Aviv during the 30’s and 40’s. In  M. Azaryahu and I. S. Troen (Eds).Tel-Aviv, the First Century: Visions, Designs, Actualities. Israel Studies Series.) (pp. 77-93). Indiana University Press.

2.     Razi, T. (2010). "Rebuilding the Family": Perceptions of the Urban Jewish Family in the Mandate Period. In E. Katvan, M. Shilo, & R. Halperin-Kedari (Eds.). One Law for Man and Woman, Women, Rights and Law in Mandatory Palestine (pp. 21-56). Bar-Ilan University Press [Hebrew]

3.     Razi, T. (2009). Forsaken Children: The Backyard of Mandate Tel-Aviv. Am-Oved Publishing House [Hebrew, 410 pp].

 

           

         F.  Other Scientific Publications

             a. Book Reviews

1. Razi, T. (2022). Review of Anat Helman's Consumer Culture and Leisure in the Young State of Israel, Kriot Israeliot , 1, 312-315 [Hebrew]

2. Razi, T. (2020). Review of Justice Instead of Charity (eds. John Gal, Roni Holler), Megamot , (2), 268-271 [Hebrew]

3.  Razi, T. (2016). Review of Ruth Glick's Captive in a New Land (Hebrew), Cathedra 158, 199-203[Hebrew]

4.       Razi, T. (2013). Review of Anat Granit-Hacohen, Hebrew Woman of the Flag. Military Service of Yishuv Women in the British Forces during the Second World War, Israel 21, 277-281 [Hebrew]

5.       Razi, T. (2013). Review of Children as Avant-Garde (eds. Yael Darr, Tal Kogman and Yehudit Shteitman), Cathedra, 147, 189-192[Hebrew]

6.       Razi, T. (2012). Review of Anat Helman’s Young Tel Aviv. A Tale of Two Cities, Journal of Israeli History, 30(2), 240-242

7.       Razi, T. (2011). Review of Rakefet Zalashik’s book, History of Psychiatry in Israel, 1892-1960 (Hebrew), Israeli Sociology, 12(1), 246-248 [Hebrew]

8.       Razi, T. (2011). Review of Haim Avni’s book, Clients, Prostitutes and White Slavers in Argentina and in Israel, Israeli Sociology, 12(2), 489-491 [Hebrew]

9.       Razi, T. (2011). Review of Deborah Bernstein’s book Gender and Nationality, Israeli Sociology 11(1), 276-278 [Hebrew]

 

a.      Scientific Reports

1.       Gigi, M., Yehuda, E. Nagar-Ron, S., & Razi, T. (2020). Diversity among staff and students: Sapir academic college as a case-study. "Tikva Ysraelit"

2.       Lachover, E., Nagar-Ron, S., & Razi, T. (2018). Gender equity at Sapir academic college academic staff.

 



Presentations

International

2006

Lecturer          Constructing a Social and Racial Problem: The Neglected Girl in Tel-Aviv

            Banff, Canada 22nd Annual Meeting, Association for Israel Studies

Lecturer          Immigration and its Discontents: Neglected Children of Urban Families in    Mandatory Palestine  Ra’anana, Israel            23rd Annual Meeting, Association for Israel Studies

2007

Lecturer          Juvenile Delinquents and Neglected Children: Constructing the Nation's Margins in Mandatory Palestine   Lisbon Portugal          European Social Science History Conference

            2008

Lecturer          Tel Aviv as Dystopia

            NYU, NYC     24th Annual Meeting, Association for Israel Studies

            2008

Lecturer          Gender and Modernization: a comparative study of the Surveillance of working girls in Mandate Palestine

            Jerusalem        15th World Union of Jewish Studies Conference,

            2009

Lecturer          Subversive Youth Cultures in Mandate Tel-Aviv

            Brandeis University    Tel-Aviv at 100: Myths and Realities: An International Conference,

            2009

Lecturer          "Their parents are unable to educate them": the closed institution as an alternate family in the urban society of Mandate Palestine

            Sapir College  25h Annual Meeting, Association for Israel Studies,

            2009

Presenter (together with Moshe Naor)           The Arab Jew and the Historiography of Jewish-Arab Relations in Mandatory Palestine

            Washington DC          43d Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies,

            2011

Presenter (together with Moshe Naor and Abigail Jacobson)

            Jews from Islamic and Arab Countries and Jewish-Arab Relations in Mandatory Palestine

            Haifa University, Israel          28th Annual Conference, Association for Israel Studies

            2012

Presenter         Immigration as Trauma? Mental Health Specialists and the Treatment of ‘problematic children’ in Mandatory Palestine

            Columbia University,

NYC    Russian Jewish Migration Across Borders, Across Times

            2012

Presenter         "Good Neighbours": Daily lives in Mixed Cities during the British Mandate from a Gendered Perspcetive

            Jerusalem        The Sixteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies

            2013

Presenter (together with Moshe Naor and Abigail Jacobson. Presented by Moshe Naor)

            The Jews from Arab Countries and the Border Neighborhoods in Mandate Palestine

            Boston, USA   Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) 45th Annual Conference,

            2013

Presenter         "Dangerous Liaisons": Oriental Spaces and Jewish Girls in Mandatory Palestine

            University of East Anglia (UK)

            The inaugural International Girls Studies Association

            2016

Presenter         Simha Tzabari (1913-2004):  Bint el-Balad

            Yad Ben-Zvi and Begin Center          32nd Annual Conference, Association for Israel Studies

            2016

participant       C Challenges of Faculty Development in the 21st Century

            Ireland Is

Consortium of Faculty Development

            2017

Presenter (Co-Autor with Moti Gigi and Sigal Nagar-Ron)  Diversity among Students and Academic Staff: Sapir Academic College as a Case-Study      Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel

            The IAIE 2021 conference

            2021

 

Presenter (together with Moti Gigi and Sigal Nagar-Ron      Diversity among Students and Academic Staff: Sapir

Academic College as a

Case-Study      The Hebrew University          EspaNet         

2022

Presenter (Co-Autor with Sagit Kedem-Yamini and Sigal Nagar-Ron)            Gender Equity and diversity in Academia: intersectional analysis of academic staff in Israel via process mining         Lisbon, Portugal          6th European

Conference on Industrial

Engineering and

Operations

Management  

2023

 

Presenter (Co-Autor with Sagit Kedem-Yamini and Sigal Nagar-Ron)            Gender Equity vs. diversity? results from intersectional analysis of academic staff in Israel via process mining

            Haifa University         Gender Equity in Academia

(International Workshop)

            2024

Presenter (Co-Autor with Sagit Kedem-Yamini and Sigal Nagar-Ron)            Exploring Intersectional Identities of Academic Staff Via Process Mining           Porto, Portugal            ESA (European Sociological Association)       2024

 

       Local

Presenter         Between Victorian England and Mandatory Palestine: Neglected Children and the British Law

            Bar-Ilan University     Law and Society in Mandatory Palestine

            2005

Presenter         Juvenile Street-Peddlers in Tel-Aviv during the 30s and 40s            Bar-Ilan University     Childhood and Children in Eretz-Israel: Phenomena and Case-Studies,

            2005

Presenter         "Saving Her from the Grip of Prostitution": Mothers of Neglected Girls during the 30s and 40s”

            Bar-Ilan University     Private Mother, National Mother: Motherhood during the Yishu,

            2007

Presenter         The Invention of Girlhood: An Historical Perspective            Bat-Yam         Portrait of a Girl: The Annual Conference of the Women and Gender Studies Program,

            2007

Presenter         Between Pedagogic Retartedness and Nervousness: Diagnosis of Problematic Pupils in Mandatory Tel-Aviv

            Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem Psychology on the Couch of Sociology,

            2007

Presenter         The Backyard of Tel-Aviv? The Margins of the Urban Society in the Mandatory Period

            Bar-Ilan University     Tel-Aviv - Legacy and Preservation:  A Reappraisal,

            2008

Presenter         Saving the Children: Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents by the British Government in Palestine Haifa University            The End of the British Mandate: A Gaze from Britain and to Britain,

            2008

Presenter         Jewish-Arabs: Ethnicity, Sexuality and Nationality in Pre-State Israel           Tel-Aviv University   Gender and Nationality,

            2008

Presenter         Shoshana Persitz: from ‘’Tarbut’ and Amanut’ to Social Welfare in Mandate Tel-Aviv

            Bar-Ilan University     “Unforgettable Hebrew Women: Biography, Historiography and National Memory”, a conference in honor of Prof. Margalit Shilo’s retirement

            2010

Presenter         A Look from Below at the Dual Thesis: Arab-Jews and Arabs during the British Mandate in Palestine

            Tel Aviv University    The Cultural Turn in the Study of Zionism and Israel

            2014

Presenter         The Dual Thesis and Mixed Cities in Mandate Palestine"        The Levzion Center, Hebrew University       Jews and Arabs in the Middle East

            2014

Presenter         "He must be turned back into a child": Working Children and Childhood in the Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies

            Haifa University         Children's Literature and Children in Literature

            2014

Presenter         "The Peace between Arabs and Jews Will be Brought by the Women":Jewish-Arab Relations during the British Mandate in Palestine from a Gendered Perspective

            Bar-Ilan University     The first Gender Studies Programs' Conference

            2016

Presenter (together with Moti Gigi and Sigal Nagar-Ron)    Ethnicity and Nationality: mapping the Students and Staff at Sapir College            Sapir Academic College         Diversity in Academia?

            2019

Presenter (together with Moti Gigi and Sigal Nagar-Ron)    The Expansion of the Academic System: Diversity among Students and Academic Staff: Sapir Academic College as a Case-Study

            The Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University

            White Academy

            2020

Presenter (together with Moti Gigi and Sigal Nagar-Ron)

            Diversity among Students and Academic Staff: Sapir Academic College as a Case-Study

            The Hebrew University

            Espanet

            2022

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